CVE-2008-5679

Opera <9.63 - Remote Code Execution

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The HTML parsing engine in Opera before 9.63 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted web pages that trigger an invalid pointer calculation and heap corruption.

References (8)

Core 8
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499315/100/0/threaded
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/linux/963/
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_sreason
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4791
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021460
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/921/
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/34294
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-30.xml

Scores

EPSS 0.0120
EPSS Percentile 79.1%

Details

CWE
CWE-399
Status published
Products (35)
opera/opera
opera/opera 5..10
opera/opera 5.0 (8 CPE variants)
opera/opera 5.1
opera/opera 5.02
opera/opera 5.2
opera/opera 5.3
opera/opera 5.4
opera/opera 5.5
opera/opera 5.6
... and 25 more
Published Dec 19, 2008
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026